The Suicide Bereavement Support Partnership is an emerging collaboration between charities in the UK based on our vision that “People bereaved by suicide have the right to appropriate support services”.
We work together to share learning and best practice, to deliver joint initiatives which improve the range and quality of available services, to increase awareness of the services available and to build relationships between our organisations enabling appropriate signposting and referrals.
The team is newly formed – current participants include CALM, Winstons Wish, Compassionate Friends, Maytree, Cruse, Papyrus, If U Care Share, Child Bereavement Network, Matthew Elvidge Trust, Samaritans and the James Wentworth Stanley Memorial Fund.
Since losing our son Jonathan to suicide in May 2011, we have done quite a lot of fundraising. We have held boot sales, stalls at fetes, skydives and many, many raffles.
In 2005 we tragically lost Fee – beloved wife and mother, when she took her own life. The shock and loss was enormous and it wasn’t until 2009 when we discovered Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide. This charity has helped all three of us, in different ways, in coming to terms with such a painful loss. It is a loss that you never get over, but their involvement in our lives has helped us to move on but not forget.